Difference between Therapist and Guru?

[Julian gabriel]

What do you think is the difference between the role of a talk therapist and a spiritual guru?

 

[ZzzleepingBear]

Therapist for the mind. Spiritual guru for the heart.

[Vajra]

The Guru is Realized and allows you to Directly Download the Keys to your own Realization from them.

[hyruga]

Guru always talk over you.

A therapist talks about your conditions with you and seeks to find a solution with you.

[LSD-Rumi]

Therapists are garbage and don't provide you with Love. A guru will provide you with all the love you need to heal. 

[Batman]

5 hours ago, LSD-Rumi said:

Therapists are garbage and don't provide you with Love. A guru will provide you with all the love you need to heal. 

I disagree, it depends on who is the therapist.

A therapist is really a doctor of mind and emotion. His purpose is to help the patient cope or change mind conditioning, and discover repressed emotion. A therapist is much about opening the biography of the character, usually the most repressed and hidden material. The best way to do this, as a therapist, is with love - being open, non-judgmental towards the patient.

The guru's "job" is not to provide love, or fulfill any need of the devotee/student/seeker. The will only make the latter dependent on the guru, like a cult. The role of the guru is to point to Consciousness. 

[Breakingthewall]

the guru tells you his movie. you tell the therapist your movie

[SOUL]

1 hour ago, Breakingthewall said:

the guru tells you his movie. you tell the therapist your movie

brilliant

[Leo Gura]

The guru knows God. The therapist does not.

Edited September 16, 2022 by Leo Gura

[r0ckyreed]

17 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

The guru knows God. The therapist does not.

From my perspective, this is not always necessarily the case. Not all gurus know God, and we can’t assume there isn’t a therapist that doesn’t know God. 

The difference to me is that gurus are more like spiritual teachers, whereas therapists are more like mental health guides to help people improve their mental well-being. Therapists are basically like a mirror and mostly listen, ask reflective questions, and encourage/challenge the clients on ways they can get through their suffering. 

A guru is not as capable or “qualified” to help people process traumas and other concerns in a therapeutic way. Teaching someone isn’t the same as therapy becomes therapy requires the processing and uncovering of emotional pain. 

[gettoefl]

therapist friend, guru lover

[Leo Gura]

10 hours ago, r0ckyreed said:

Not all gurus know God

Lot of false gurus out there.

Then again, few gurus actually call themselves gurus.

Edited September 16, 2022 by Leo Gura

[axiom]

A therapist believes in the epic, full of twists and turns.

A guru may believe in himself, but that’s as far as he’ll believe in anything.

[RMQualtrough]

About 5 IQ points.

[puporing]

Guru: the Mind create the world.

Therapist: the world create our mind. 

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Ultimately: "guru" and "therapist" are one just as the "student" and "teacher" are one, as you integrate more and more of reality and "God consciousness" .

Edited September 18, 2022 by puporing

[caspex]

A Therapist helps you solve your problems. 

A Guru helps you solve the problems you didn't even know you had. 

 

A Therapist helps you achieve a healthy ego self. 

A Guru helps you destroy your ego self. 

 

A Therapist helps you come back up to average. 

A Guru helps you go beyond average. 

 

A Therapist helps you gain the ability to have fun in life. 

A Guru helps you gain the ability to feel bliss in life. 

 

A Therapist makes you a functioning member of society. 

A Guru shows you how society is dysfunctional. 

 

A Therapist can't do what a Guru can do.

A Guru can do what a Therapist can do. 

 

A Therapist helps the weakest and the most crippled. 

A Guru helps the 'strongest' and the most intellectual. 

 

A Therapist helps you detangle your psychological problems.

A Guru helps you detangle yourself. 

 

A Therapist shows you how to get out of your own way. 

A Guru shows you you are the way. 

 

A Therapist helps you love yourself. 

A Guru helps you love yourself deeper. 

 

A Therapist helps you up the spiral till green at most. 

A Guru takes you from Green to maybe beyond. 

 

A Therapist helps you become sane. 

A Guru helps you go insane. 

 

A Therapist loves helping people overcome themselves. 

A Guru loves helping himself overcome himself. 

 

You get the point. A Guru is basically an upgraded Therapist. A Therapist even the most mentally sound need. 

[Brandon Nankivell]

On 16/09/2022 at 1:01 PM, Leo Gura said:

The guru knows God. The therapist does not.

+1

[SOUL]

On 9/15/2022 at 3:47 PM, Breakingthewall said:

the guru tells you their movie. you tell the therapist your movie

Hah it was in the back of my mind since the last quote but it's all past though